Background
Moshiri, Farnoosh M. was born on July 14, 1951, in Tehran, Iran. Arrived in the United States, 1987. Daughter of Mansour Moshiri and Nasrin Hakim.
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With intense emotion and great literary skill, Farnoosh Moshiri has written one of the most moving novels to come out in years. The story begins with the arrest of a seventeen-year-old girl in the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran. Imprisoned because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics, she is placed in a makeshift jail, a former bathhouse, in which other women are held captive. With a gripping narrative, Moshiri gives voice to these prisoners, exploring their torment and struggle, but also their courage and humanity, in the face of tyrants.
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( About the Author: Farnoosh Moshiri grew up in a literar...)
About the Author: Farnoosh Moshiri grew up in a literary family in Tehran. She worked as a playwright and fiction writer in Iran, before fleeing the country in 1983 after the massive arrests of intellectuals and artists. Winner of the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship, she now teaches creative writing and literature. This is her first novel.
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Awarded the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction. In the dozen stories in The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree, Farnoosh Moshiri combines social and political insight with the mythology of her native Iran. Her earlier books, The Bathhouse (which also won the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction) and At the Wall of the Almighty, were set in Iran. The present book is set both in Iran and the United States. Several of the stories are concerned with the loss of status, the poverty, the loss of identity that immigrants often suffer. Unlike most immigrant stories, The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree deals equally with the violence and political repression visited upon those who would emigrate during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran.
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Moshiri, Farnoosh M. was born on July 14, 1951, in Tehran, Iran. Arrived in the United States, 1987. Daughter of Mansour Moshiri and Nasrin Hakim.
Bachelor in dramatic literature, College of Dramatic Arts, Tehran, 1974. Master of Arts in drama, University of Iowa, 1979. Master of Fine Arts in English and creative writing, University Houston, 2000.
Instructor of drama College of Dramatic Arts, Tehran, 1979—1983. Instructor of English Houston Community College, 1986—2001, University Houston, 1990—2001. Associate professor of English Montgomery College, Conroe, since 2001.
(With intense emotion and great literary skill, Farnoosh M...)
( About the Author: Farnoosh Moshiri grew up in a literar...)
(Awarded the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction. I...)
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association S. W., Association of Poets and Writers.
Married David Rossi, April 28, 1990. Married Akbar Afra, March 20, 1973 (divorced July 1, 1986). 1 child Anoosh Afra.